Wagner Group graves being DEMOLISHED by bulldozer after murder of Prigozhin as Russia ‘destroys cemetery he opened’

Aug 09, 2023

A WAGNER Group cemetery has been demolished after leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a fireball jet crash.

Hundreds of graves in the Russian village of Nikolayevka have had their crosses removed and were bulldozed to the ground.

Earlier this year, the mercenary cemetery appeared in the southwestern region of Samara Oblast, where the late Wagner warlord unveiled a black obelisk in April.

But on Friday, crosses and wreaths were "piled up like rubbish" and the avenue that once was a memorial was replaced with a gravel-covered field.

A video of the works has surfaced on X showing the site completely wiped out apart from Prigozhin's obelisk, which appeared to be left untouched.

"Where this path is, were graves. Everything has been demolished," said an unknown Wagner Group follower.

"What are you doing guys?" he asks.

"This is blasphemy. People were dying for Russia and you levelled all their graves.

"What are you doing, are you not afraid of God?"

He goes on to show the piles of wooden crosses and wreaths, as well as gravel being laid out where the graveyard used to be.

"Crosses for all the dead guys, notice the year - 2023.

"All Wagner wreaths dumped in a pile.

"And here, where the work is going on, were graves of Wagnerites.

He added: "Nikolaev cemetery, unclear what's going on, all crosses and wreaths were collected.

"No idea what they're doing here."

The video, shared by X account @Ukrainene, was followed by a brief description.

"The destruction of the graves of the Wagnerites in the cemetery where Prigozhin opened the obelisk in the settlement of Nikolaevka, Samara region, Russia has been declared," it read.

"Prigozhin thought the monument will stand for centuries so that the descendants will remember the exploits of Wagner fighters.

"At the moment there were more than 500 graves in that cemetery.

"However, Prigozhin has not yet been buried, but it was destroyed."

There has been no official comment from authorities in Samara Oblast authorities on the works.

It will be paved with concrete, and a black pyramid will supposedly appear on the site of each grave, local media reported.